Kwasi Mifume Quotes

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans

When you win, you win together and when you lose, you lose together too.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.